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From: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router
Date: 28 Apr 1996 21:10:13 GMT
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Jamie Bowden (bowden@cs.odu.edu) wrote:
: The classic failing of unix boxes as a router is that the max throughput 
: is about 2mbit...it's a limit of the os...this is not just a freebsd 
: thing...we have tested this in SunOS4.1.x, and Solaris 2.x, and have had 
: communications with others who have tried with other platforms (free and 
: proprietary).  2mbit seems to be about the limit.

We have seen way more then this going through our MAE-East and other 
routers, and they are P133s running FreeBSD 2.1.0. CDROM.COM gets close to 
100 mbps through there FreeBSD routers. So I don't think so, but you are 
right in that fact that a PC will route the packets over the CPU and something 
like a cisco 7000 route packets interface to interface and only uses the 
cpu to do bgp4 and stuff. 

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Nathan Stratton		  CEO, NetRail, Inc.    Tracking the future today!
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